A Boeing 737 carrying 140 people from Guantanamo Bay has crashed at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida. The incident happened at 9:40 PM on Friday when the Miami Air International plane ran off the runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida and into the St. Johns River. (heavy.com) Plus d'info...

Lots of bad weather in southern southwest Florida yesterday. Several diversions planes for FLL landed at PBI and RSW till weather cleared. Was listening to ATC they did a great job communicating weather situation near FLL including runway conditions.

the passengers were very lucky..sadly though its reported there were peoples pets in the cargo hold,and reports were divers were sent in to investigate..overhead views of the plane show it to be very close to the embankment,and with flotation buoys positioned..last night it had not been determined how the plane was going to be moved from the river..

A lady who is a DOD lawyer on official business at Gitmo told CNN the night of the accident that the flight was 4 hours late in arriving there, and once airborne towards JAX the A/C would not work making it a very uncomfortable flight. Furthermore she and other ladies who were on board also said that the landing was "very hard", the plane bounced at least twice then veered left and right. Once the plane finally stopped the flight attendants provided a very professional assistance in getting the passengers out of the plane.

Due to runway improvements landing on 9 was shorter than landing on 27. They landed in bad conditions with the left thrust reverser out of service. A little bit longer on the touchdown, wet runway, and lack of asymmetrical braking: all spelled TROUBLE.

dispatchers perspective here... more than likely should have diverted.

Wonder what their alternate was and what their bug out fuel was. If they didnt have enough for a bug out then thats on the captain and on the dispatcher.

YOU SHOULD NEVER LAND IN THE THUNDERSTORM PERIOD ! Problem is this was Miami Air and they are supplemental charter... so they dont actually have dispatchers, only flight followers. So because of that, Captain gets ultimate and final say unlike at the airlines.

This is why flying for the airlines is a better bet. You have more people to make decisions. Easy to get tunnel vision when you are running the show and don't have someone on the ground who has just as much as authority as you do in the air... provided you do not declare an emergency. If thats the case, the book gets thrown out the window and PIC can do whatever it takes to get his plane down and ensure everyone onboard is safe and sound on the ground and planes in one piece.

One thing about Ole Carl, he definitely don’t like thunderstorms and he yells a lot! Kind of like Ole Crazy Joe, stands in the yard in his underwear and work boots and tells the kids TO GET OUT OF MY YARD!